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     cosmo vitelli Member Username: Cosmo Post Number: 230 Registered: 05-2005 |
The Thirteenth Floor Elevators - 7th Heaven The Complete Singles Collection Awesome! | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 1754 Registered: 09-2006 |
Flowing naturally from a Television/Tom Verlaine binge into a Richard Hell binge: Blank Generation Destiny Street R.I.P. Spurts | ||
| Andreas Severins Member Username: Andreas_severins Post Number: 131 Registered: 11-2007 |
Hi Allen, have you heared Destiny Street Repaired? When Blank Generation came out it was one of the albums I loved the most. The follower Destiny Street was not as good for me in these days. When I heared of the plan of "Destiny Street Repaired" I was really excited. ...and I have to say that not every version is better than the original but the new version is really wonderful - much more powerful. And Richard sounds even better today than in his early years. I would like to see him in a concert! Let's hope! | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 1755 Registered: 09-2006 |
Haven't heard it yet, Andreas, but I've got it on order and am definitely looking forward to it. | ||
| Michael Bachman Member Username: Michael_bachman Post Number: 1731 Registered: 01-2005 |
On random setting: We Get Requests - The Oscar Peterson Trio Look Out! - Stanley Turrentine The Real McCoy - McCoy Tyner (with Elvin Jones, Ron Carter and Joe Henderson, Highly recommended!) Somethin' Else - Cannonball Adderly (with Miles Davis, Hank Jones, Sam Jones ans Art Blakey, Highly, highly recommended!!) Blue & Sentimental - Ike Quebec | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 1757 Registered: 09-2006 |
Back to immersing in Television's Adventure. The more I listen the more I'm certain: as fine a record in its way as Marquee Moon is in its. | ||
| Jerry Clark Member Username: Jerry Post Number: 990 Registered: 08-2004 |
I'll have to give Destiny Street a go. Karen O & The Kids - Where The Wild Things Are OST Hush Arbors - Yankee Reality VA - Reggae Chartbusters Vol 1 | ||
| Lewisdhead Member Username: Lewisdhead Post Number: 53 Registered: 01-2007 |
The Acorn-Glory Hope Mountain Arbouretum-Song Of The Pearl | ||
| Michael Bachman Member Username: Michael_bachman Post Number: 1737 Registered: 01-2005 |
Just arrived in the post and I'm listening to: Bobby Hutcherson - Happenings Steve Earle - Jerusalem The Replacements - Pleased To Meet Me (Rhino reissue with extra tracks) | ||
| Jerry Clark Member Username: Jerry Post Number: 991 Registered: 08-2004 |
Tom Waits - Rain Dogs Grace Jones - Compass Point Sessions Hot Chip - One Life Stand Smokey Robinson - Master Series | ||
| Michael Bachman Member Username: Michael_bachman Post Number: 1741 Registered: 01-2005 |
Jerry, I go back and forth on Rain Dogs and Frank's Wild Years being my favorite Tom Waits of the handful I own. I have yet to pick up the first album of the trilogy, swordfishtrombones, which will probably be the next one I get. The other ones I have are Small Change, Bone Machine and Mule Variations. | ||
| Jeff Whiteaker Member Username: Jeff_whiteaker Post Number: 1878 Registered: 10-2004 |
Michael, that McCoy Tyner album is wonderful, isn't it! | ||
| Michael Bachman Member Username: Michael_bachman Post Number: 1743 Registered: 01-2005 |
Jeff, Yes it is. It's my favorite Tyner along with Trident. I wish some lable would remaster Trident. I just bought another Blue Note RVG reissue McCoy Tyner cd that hasn't arrived yet, Time For Tyner. TFT has Bobby Hutcherson on vibes but the rhythm lacks the whallop of Trident and The Real McCoy's Elvin Jones and Ron Carter with Herbie Lewis on bass and Freddie Waits on drums. | ||
| Jerry Clark Member Username: Jerry Post Number: 993 Registered: 08-2004 |
Rain Dogs is my first attempt at giving Tom Waits a try. Suffice to say it's won me over. I've got Swordfish... too. He's quite vibrant & upbeat The complete opposite to what I was expecting. Have I made the mistake of starting with his best work & everything else will pale & disappoint? Time will tell... R.E.M. - Live At The Olympia - 2.5 hours of fun. | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 1758 Registered: 09-2006 |
My guess is that if you liked those two you'll go for much of his post-Swordfish stuff as well (the pre-Swordfish stuff is another story...for me a good compilation of that era suffices). Rain Dogs was my favorite for a long time, but Mule Variations supplanted it. | ||
| Jeff Whiteaker Member Username: Jeff_whiteaker Post Number: 1879 Registered: 10-2004 |
Jerry, in my ever so humble opinion, yes, you have started with the best, but that's not to say that everything else is crap. Personally, I've never been much of a fan of 70s Tom Waits, save for Small Change and the odd track here or there. I think you'll be better off going forward through his post-Rain Dogs output. | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 1760 Registered: 09-2006 |
Richard Hell - Destiny Street Repaired The most fragile and earnest of the great CBGB art-punks, which gave his yearning for transcendance added poignance and weight, even when he was diving headfirst into addiction. He was also the most self-conscious and -critical of his own work, hence the Spurts compilation, and now this. He says the title was the best he could arrive at, and I don't agree with it...IMO the original stands up very well. But, boy, so does this. I made up a CD-R today with each song side-by-side, and the comparisons are fascinating and great fun. It's also nice to hear him singing out again, instead of directly into his chin, as he seemed to be doing on the Dim Stars album. Either way, it's a fine batch of songs backed with a shitload of great guitar. What more could you want? | ||
| Michael Bachman Member Username: Michael_bachman Post Number: 1745 Registered: 01-2005 |
Jerry, Allen's choice of Mule Variations as being his favorite is a great pick. I would recommend it or Frank's Wild Years as your next purchase. I don't own it, but I've listened to Alice a few times and remember it fondly. | ||
| Jerry Clark Member Username: Jerry Post Number: 995 Registered: 08-2004 |
Thanks guys. | ||
| David Gagen Member Username: David_g Post Number: 292 Registered: 02-2007 |
Jerry, of the earlier albums I'd suggest Blue Valentine, some amazing songs on that album. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 2256 Registered: 03-2005 |
Roky Erickson--The Best of . . . Ok, I'm going to have to do some judicious skipping here. Things like "Bermuda" and "I Have Always Been Here Before" are the reason I've put this on but I forgot about tubby Chuck Berry retreads like "Don't Shake Me Lucifer." | ||
| frank bascombe Member Username: Frankb Post Number: 462 Registered: 01-2007 |
Even the first LP has its moments can there be a better song than Martha, or Ol'55. Raindogs and Swordfist are my faves earlier one are more Jazz based but non the worse for that Blue Valentine Small Change are good and the compilation TW "Early Years " has most of the better stuff on. Of the more recent stuff I like Alice, and the triple decker Bastards is a interesting and worth it. | ||
| peter ward Member Username: Peter_ward Post Number: 109 Registered: 06-2005 |
Jerry, pick up a copy of Barney Hopkins "Low Side Of The Road" and work you're way through them chronologically. Rediscovered a lot of songs when I did this last year and it's an interesting road finishing up at The Glitter and Doom tour of the Summer before last. Swordfishtrombones is still my favourite and while he has some surefire classic albums from beginning to end even the mid to late seventies patch where things got a bit samey produced at least a few brilliant songs on each album. I'd be envious of anybody starting out to listen to them all with fresh ears.. enjoy! | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 1765 Registered: 09-2006 |
tUnE-yArDs - BiRd-BrAiNs Television -s/t Curtis Mayfield - The Anthology The xx - xx | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 3372 Registered: 05-2005 |
Very early Triffids songs available as free downloads from here http://www.dominorecordco.com/triffidsro ad/ | ||
| Jerry Clark Member Username: Jerry Post Number: 998 Registered: 08-2004 |
Sorry Peter I'm not that disciplined. I'm gonna enjoy dipping in & out of Waits' ouevre. One day I'll find out what ouevre means & how it's spelt. Jayhawks - Music From The North Country Iggy & The Stooges - Raw Power Rolling Stones - Black & Blue New Young Pony Club - Fantastic Playroom | ||
| cosmo vitelli Member Username: Cosmo Post Number: 236 Registered: 05-2005 |
Teenage Fanclub : Man-made I hadnt listened to this for a couple of years and forgot how f***ing brilliant it is | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 332 Registered: 10-2006 |
The In Kraut - "Hip shaking grooves from Germany 1966 - 1974" is the subtitle, and it's one of most purely pleasurable things I've heard for ages - big beefy horns & organ heavy tunes with a very John Barry feel, especially Heidi Bruhl's Nancy Sinatraish ode to the naughty ambience of "Berlin." IRM - Charlotte Gainsboroug, who has got Beck to help her out. I think this will be a grower. Cut - the Splits. deluxe etc. Good to hear this again, although I think I got it mixed up with the Raincoat's moving on. Wowee Zowee - sordid sentinals edition - One of my favourite things by Pavement, hopefully as a taster for their concert in may. Kicking Television - Wilco. Especially Hell is Chrome with its searing minimalist guitar solo and lovely vocal. Why, however, should it be considered "dignified" to travel from Kansas City to Chicago to see the band?? | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 3376 Registered: 05-2005 |
Midlake - Denton Sessions EP | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 3377 Registered: 05-2005 |
Field Music - Measure. It's rather wonderful and gets better with every listen. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 2262 Registered: 03-2005 |
David Kilgour & the Heavy Eights | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 3378 Registered: 05-2005 |
Various Taken By Trees songs. | ||
| frank bascombe Member Username: Frankb Post Number: 463 Registered: 01-2007 |
Relistening to all the Elvis Costello CDs in no particular order. My favourite so far is Blood and Chocolate. not listened to anything earlier than Imperial Bedroom yet. | ||
| frank bascombe Member Username: Frankb Post Number: 464 Registered: 01-2007 |
Relistening to all the Elvis Costello CDs in no particular order. My favourite so far is Blood and Chocolate. not listened to anything earlier than Imperial Bedroom yet. Also liking the new Massive Attack | ||
| Michael Bachman Member Username: Michael_bachman Post Number: 1749 Registered: 01-2005 |
Allen, I haven't played that 1992 s/t Television album in years. Same with Lindsey Buckingham's Out Of The Cradle. I must have been lost in all the shoegazer albums I was listening to back then and forgot about them which was typical aside from listening to Matthew Sweet's Girlfriend and the last two tracks from Automatic For The People (during the last few months of 1992). | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 3382 Registered: 05-2005 |
Word magazine - Best of the Decade compilation. | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 1768 Registered: 09-2006 |
That s/t Television sounds better than ever to me, Michael...might be a little residual affection spilling over from my recent love-binge on their other albums, but I don't think so. Not a classic like the first two, but up there with Verlaine's best solo albums. | ||
| skulldisco Member Username: Skulldisco Post Number: 573 Registered: 10-2008 |
i played television s/t after the comments here. nothing special compared to the first two albums, but call mr lee and no glamour for willi are excellent. dont know why, but this album always reminds me of luna, with tom verlaine on vocals | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 1769 Registered: 09-2006 |
I can see that...the vocals are just as laid-back at times, as is the atmosphere. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 3385 Registered: 05-2005 |
I really like Television's 1992 record too. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 3386 Registered: 05-2005 |
Last night I played the xx and Leisure Society albums. I loved the former and really liked the latter. Thanks to whoever here bigged up The xx. I think Kevin did and there were others too. It really is a stunning record. | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 1770 Registered: 09-2006 |
I'm spending plenty of time with that one, myself. | ||
| David Gagen Member Username: David_g Post Number: 293 Registered: 02-2007 |
The Baker's Son - Birds of Tokyo | ||
| Michael Bachman Member Username: Michael_bachman Post Number: 1750 Registered: 01-2005 |
Kevin and Allen, yes, the sound of the 1992 Television album is very lunaesque. Another album from 1992 is next up, The Boo Radleys - Everything's All Right Forever. A few of the highly regarded albums from 1992 that I've missed out on: Nick Cave - Henry's Dream, Sugar - Copper Blue, Leonard Cohen - The Future, XTC - Nonsuch, James - Seven. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 2264 Registered: 03-2005 |
I confess that "Henry's Dream" is the Cave album that made me stop buying his records for a decade. My perception was that he had fallen into a fixed formula by that time. It seemed the same as "The Good Son" and even "Mercy Seat" but those two albums were better. If you haven't bought "Henry's Dream" yet, Michael, I wouldn't hurry. | ||
| Geoff Holmes Member Username: Geoff Post Number: 642 Registered: 05-2005 |
Going through a Buffalo Springfield fix at the moment(the first 2) with a bit of early Pink Floyd thrown in for good measure since we have been bombarded with Pink Floyd docos of late...and Wings Wild Life! | ||
| Michael Bachman Member Username: Michael_bachman Post Number: 1752 Registered: 01-2005 |
Randy, I can hold off of Henry's Dream. Maybe I'll start checking out The Birthday Party, The Bats and Clean. In the meantime I'm still in the middle of buying the Replacements and Echo and The Bunneymen reissues. | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 1772 Registered: 09-2006 |
Death Cab for Cutie - The Open Door (EP) and Narrow Stairs (LP) After many years this band of locals is beginning to grow on me, a little. Ben Gibbard's particular obsessive romantic dilemma can be both banal and maddening (basically it's the old "The love of my life walked out on me and so I'm stepping into each new relationship terrified it's going to happen again, to the point where they're doomed before they start, and I find myself heading for the door the minute it even remotely appears that she's heading for the door."). His singing wears on me over the long haul, too. But he does have some nice turns of phrase, an even an occasional insight here or there. And the tunes and musicianship, especially on the two above records, can get pretty darn seductive when I let myself surrender. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 2265 Registered: 03-2005 |
Oddly, I've never gotten the individual Birthday Party records. I have one now-very-old anthology on Missing Link. You have to be in the mood for their noisiness but they could be brilliant. I suppose I should think about picking up the albums. The Bats' single best album is the super-hard-to-get "Daddy's Highway" which also desperately needs remastering (if you DO find a copy that doesn't cost you an arm and a leg). "Fear of God" and "Silverbeet" are good too but "Daddy's Highway" is the essential one. You could level the criticism that the Bats' records all sound the same. That's not totally true but Robert Scott has maintained a pretty consistent approach to his music and the group--incredibly--has had no personnel changes over all these years. I probably listen to his solo collection of New Zealand folk songs--"Songs of Otago's Past"--as much as I do to any of the individual Bats albums. I still don't have very many Clean albums. The two-disc "Anthology" is quite excellent and probably all you really need. It spans from the crudest early garage punk to substantially later well crafted guitar pop. I have started picking up David Kilgour solo records. It's weird how much he comes off sounding like solo-era Grant McLennan. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 2266 Registered: 03-2005 |
Meanwhile, I'm listening to the first disc of "Tutto Vanoni" an anthology of Ornella Vanoni that very frustratingly uses re-recordings of the songs originally recorded in the '60s. On the package they have the nerve to call them "remastered versions." Yeah, songs from 1966 and 1967 have synthesizer. Right. Grrrr. I am reminded of the long process I went through locating some of the better 60s recordings by Mina. If you can't read the liner notes you're at the mercy of blind fortune. | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 334 Registered: 10-2006 |
Michael - and do get hold of Cohen's The Future, his last really great album. Some killer songs on that one. Randy - there are so many anthologies of these classic Italian singers that it's really difficult to find one that both includes all their best stuff and in the versions you want. I was just on the point of buying Tutto Vanoni as well, but I'll check around for something else now! There's certainly no web info I can find that indicates a rerecording, it's always simply referred to as a compilation or anthology. Some of the stuff on disc one is from the mid70s though - maybe synths were already around then?? | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 3391 Registered: 05-2005 |
White Denim - Rough Trade Mix. It's a mix CD of tracks chosen by White Denim. Lots of great, obscure (ie many bands I'd never heard of, or heard of but never heard) garage rock and soul music. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 2267 Registered: 03-2005 |
Stuart, synths were definitely around by the mid-70s. But I'm talking about Una Ragione Di Piu which was a 60s song. Was it you who linked us to the video of her doing it? This is a totally different version and is vastly inferior. When the disc arrived I rushed to play it because I wanted to hear and was SO bummed when it was this fakey version that I didn't even try to listen to anything on the disc again for a couple days. I read somewhere that she started up her own label at some point and I'll bet that she's trying to avoid paying royalties to her original record company. The stuff from the 70s sounds like it's from the 70s so I imagine it's all original but--for me--Italian pop of the 60s is generally much better than Italian pop of the 70s. (Yeah I know, big surprise given my tastes). | ||
| cosmo vitelli Member Username: Cosmo Post Number: 238 Registered: 05-2005 |
The biggest problem with Henry's Dream is the production which simply doesnt do the songs justice. Cave had a nightmare working with David Briggs (Neil Young's producer) and the project failed as a result. | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 335 Registered: 10-2006 |
Yeah, that was my link, and I suspect that's the only version like that that exists! Which is a shame, since it's the orchestral whammo that really makes it! And yes, there are a lot of riches in Italian 60s pop:here's another of my favourites, just in case you don't know it!: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CPKl-X5qX j0 | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 1774 Registered: 09-2006 |
Kleenex/Liliput - 2-disc anthology | ||
| Jeff Whiteaker Member Username: Jeff_whiteaker Post Number: 1881 Registered: 10-2004 |
Randy, you should definitely think of getting the Birthday Party albums, particularly the CD that combines the Bad Seed and Mutiny EPs. Those two EPs are definitely peak Birthday Party. Prayers on Fire should be purchased second. I used to love Junkyard, but now I find that it gets a bit numbing after a full listen. It does contain some inarguable classics, though, like Big Jesus Trash Can and Hamlet. The debut is good, too, but not as essential. | ||
| Jeff Whiteaker Member Username: Jeff_whiteaker Post Number: 1882 Registered: 10-2004 |
As for Henry's Dream, I don't think it's a bad album, but Cave had definitely arrived at (and became stuck in) a certain shtick by that point that got old really fast. When Henry's Dream came out, I was obsessed with the Birthday Party but knew next to nothing of Cave's solo work. So, the first solo Cave song I really heard was Straight to You, via the video that MTV was playing upon Henry's Dream's release. That song sucks so hard, is so atrociously and heinously and revoltingly lame, that it immediately made me suspicious of all of Cave's solo work. But then when I started working my way up from Eternity and discovered how great much of his 80s output was, I just assumed that Henry's Dream/Straight to You was a disturbing and tragic fall from grace. Then when I finally got around to hearing Henry's Dream I realized that the album wasn't so bad and that that particular song was not really representative of it. I Had a Dream Joe is an undeniably great song, though. And I think Henry's Dream is miles better than all Nick Cave albums that came out after Let Love In. I still think the best thing Cave has EVER done is From Her To Eternity. I even like it more than the Birthday Party. | ||
| Michael Bachman Member Username: Michael_bachman Post Number: 1753 Registered: 01-2005 |
Just arrived and have been listening to between rounds of shoveling snow from my driveway: Echo and The Bunneymen - Crocodiles (2004 reissue with six bonus tracks and the Sines So Hard EP) Devo - Q: Are We Not Me? (2009 reissue with bonus tracks: complete Q; Are We Not Men? live from London May 6th, 2009) Both highly recommended!! | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 2268 Registered: 03-2005 |
And, oddly enough, I've never had or even heard "From Her to Eternity." My induction into the world of Nick Cave was his covers album "Kicking Against the Pricks." Then I started buying forward and also got "Firstborn is Dead." "Eternity" just got lost in the shuffle for no conscious reason. I'll follow your advice re the Birthday Party records Jeff. Oh yeah, Stuart! You live in Italia, don't you? Keep sending those links! That's just sent me off to Amazon to order the 3-CD "Flashback Collection" of theirs. Hopefully it's not re-recorded crap. Cross your fingers. Re the Ornella Vanoni song I realize that the youtube performance was a live-on-TV thing and therefore unique but the studio version should certainly have proper orchestration and I'll bet it does. The version on "Tutti Vanoni" tries to get away with the synth in place of the orchestra. The back-up vocals are really wrong-sounding too as I recall. All male, I think. I'll give it a re-listen at some point. I suppose you're well familiar with this, but just in case . . . . It's a huge favorite of mine. She's just lip-synching to the studio production except for the odd cut-off at the end. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uKSuG1LOa YI Wonderfully Charles Blackwell/Ivor Raymonde-esque! | ||
| Jeff Whiteaker Member Username: Jeff_whiteaker Post Number: 1884 Registered: 10-2004 |
Randy, "Eternity" is a masterpiece. You really need to own it. I think it's one of the most inspired things he's ever done. It's bleak, dark, difficult, scabrous, and rather unpop, and it was my entry into the world of the Bad Seeds. After "Eternity," the Bad Seeds' sound became increasingly more conventional with every record. For me, "Eternity" is one of the few Bad Seeds albums that still sounds exciting and crucial all these years later. I don't know how much you'd like it, but if you want to hear something that's truly edgy and unconventional, you should put this on your list. | ||
| skulldisco Member Username: Skulldisco Post Number: 574 Registered: 10-2008 |
st huck rocks big time with a menacing bass line from barry a, and the album (eternity) is great, but your funeral... has grown to be my favourite early bad seeds album. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 3393 Registered: 05-2005 |
I haven't played Henry's Dream in years, but I used to love it when I did. I think Straight To You is a fantastic pop song. I love it. Though I don't play the album anymore, I certainly play that one song. | ||
| Andrew Kerr Member Username: Andrew_k Post Number: 535 Registered: 04-2005 |
With you on that song Pádraig. It has a great power and a wonderful sound (shades of Dylan's "wild mercury"?) I saw the Bad Seeds on the tour for that record and the songs were hell of a lot better live. I'm sure that I have read that things were not that good between the Seeds and David Brigg (producer) for "Henry's Dream". | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 337 Registered: 10-2006 |
Oh dear god, Randy, a 3 CD collection of Dik Dik might be pushing it...I already feel a bit guilty about the Vanoni compilation! Thanks for the Mina, one of the great voices. | ||
| Jerry Clark Member Username: Jerry Post Number: 999 Registered: 08-2004 |
Saint Huck does indeed rock. As does Train Long Suffering, Tupelo & more from the early Bad Seeds years. If you like Your Funeral... get hold of the Sonic book of Cave's I think it's an Italian release. There are 4 tracks of readings from 'And The Ass Saw The Angel' backed by the Bad Seeds. It's like The Carny, nasty imagery with left of centre Blues. Tom Waits - Swordfish... Bunnymen - The Fountain Farse - Means To An End Inspiral Carpets - The Beast Inside The Chameleons - What Does Anything Mean Basically? | ||
| Jerry Clark Member Username: Jerry Post Number: 1001 Registered: 08-2004 |
I forgot: Canned Heat - Boogie With Canned Heat ... not that it was completely forgettable! | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 2269 Registered: 03-2005 |
No worries Stuart. I usually go overkill on the non-English artists, knowing that I'll have to cull out the dull stuff. That's how I find things like "Se Telefonando" (which I got on a Mina 3-CD set a bunch of years back before anybody started re-releasing her early albums and maybe about 1/3 of the music on that set is skipped for being too soggy). In fact, I've also just pulled the trigger on another 3 CD set for Mina that starts up where my Mina shelf stops. I expect it'll have lots and lots of things I don't want but her records from the early 70s are quite good. I got a 2 CD set of French singer Alice Dona's entire output from 1963 to 1966 and deleted about 40% of it when loading it onto iTunes. (Dona wrote or co-wrote nearly everything she recorded during that time). Re Vanoni, after doing some research it looks like she has not been nearly as well served in the CD age as Mina. It doesn't look like I can get any of her pre-1970 recordings, period. I still remember shooting in the dark to try to get a handle on Alain Bashung. I first bought a rather dreary anthology of his early work and his ok-but-too-gimmicky hit album "Pizza." Trou set me on the right path there and Bashung's later records rank very highly in my personal music collection. The Americans are so insular they don't care about other people's music and that makes it difficult to discover the good non-anglophone artists. So I jump on any opportunities presented. | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 338 Registered: 10-2006 |
If you know Mina, Randy, you might also know Lucio Battisti, and one Italian compilation I can heartily recommend, and with absolutely nothing that needs to be deleted either, is his anthology "le origini volume 2" - pure musical genius from end to end. The first time my wife played me some of his stuff I couldn't believe how crazy Italy was to keep to him to themselves, he should have been acclaimed worldwide. But the language thing is always a big hurdle. One of his most beautiful songs: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Z-i0HwgO ZA&feature=related | ||
| Jeff Whiteaker Member Username: Jeff_whiteaker Post Number: 1886 Registered: 10-2004 |
Kevin, Your Funeral... is quite good, although I haven't listened to it in a million years. I should give it a spin. My personal favorite Eternity moments might be Cabin Fever, the title track, and Saint Huck. But the whole album is amazing, with maybe only Wings Off Flies being the sole weak link. But his cover of Avalanche is harrowing! | ||
| Peter_d Member Username: Peter_d Post Number: 49 Registered: 05-2005 |
That Petrol Emotion -Chemicrazy.. ah, the memories! Really strong, cohesive album, not a bad track on it imho.. | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 340 Registered: 10-2006 |
Thanks for dropping Bashung's name again, Randy - some great stuff on YouTube, especially Sur la trapeze and La nuit je mens - Amazon.fr is going to be hearing from me! | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 2270 Registered: 03-2005 |
Stuart, the albums those songs come from, "Bleu Petrole" for "Sur la Trapeze," and "Fantaisie Militaire" for "Le Nuit je Mens," are both great. In fact, I listened to "Bleu Petrole" last night. Bashung can do a nine minute song with relatively few chords (but, no, it's not as extreme as "Heroin") in a language I do not understand and yet it is desolate and moving all the way through ("Comme Un Lego"). I was NOT familiar with Lucia Battisti. Amazon doesn't have your anthology but it looks like this will serve well: http://www.amazon.com/Avventure-Di-Lucio -Battisti-Mogol/dp/B0006UDPVU/ref=sr_1_5 ?ie=UTF8&s=music&qid=1267027656&sr=8-5 I'm holding off on ordering for the moment because I've got an awful lot of music coming my way and I don't want things to fall between the mental cracks. Alarmingly, there's even a second volume to this set! | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 2271 Registered: 03-2005 |
I should have said "Bashung COULD do a nine minute song . . ." since he's no longer with us. "Bleu Petrole" is an extraordinary swan song. | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 341 Registered: 10-2006 |
That's a pretty good collection, too, although it does have a couple of his later things when he started recording abroad and lost the wild creative edge of his early & middle years...and the lyrics are worth doing a few Italian classes for! | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 3397 Registered: 05-2005 |
Pavement - Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain 2CD remaster. In preparation for seeing them live next week. | ||
| David Gagen Member Username: David_g Post Number: 294 Registered: 02-2007 |
Teenage Cancer Trust - Noel Gallagher acoustic with Paul Weller. Great album. Noel is actually really good on this. This guy should have left Oasis years ago. He's brilliant! | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 2272 Registered: 03-2005 |
Stuart, what should I regard as the cut-off for Battisti? It looks like he worked with Mogol until '81 or so. Should I stop at an earlier point than that? Another option on Amazon is to simply buy his first half-dozen albums. Should I be looking at pre-Mogol work as well? | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 342 Registered: 10-2006 |
Well, that’s a tricky one, also because I see there are some rarities and things he wrote for other people on the Adventure… boxed sets. But where possible I like to have the more organic feel of the originals rather than a collection, and there are some delicious instrumental parts on some of his discs which tend to get lost when the compilations are, um, compiled. For me, the core of his work is the first seven albums, that’s: Lucio Battisti, Emozioni, Amore e non amore, Umanamente uomo: il sogno, Il mio canto libero, Il nostro caro angelo and Anima latina. There are great songs after that, too, but the production goes all “international” with drippy electric pianos and foreign musicians and some of the rawness vanishes. But that’s just personal taste. The two boxed sets certainly give you everything, plus a bit more! It’s great in a way you don’t know Battisti…when I first sat down to listen to him, it was like someone who’s never heard Dylan or the Beatles before having both of them thrown at him in one evening! Well, an overstatement…but not by much! | ||
| Jerry Clark Member Username: Jerry Post Number: 1002 Registered: 08-2004 |
Nick Lowe - Jesus Of Cool The Pretty Things - Very Best Of... Stone Roses - Demo's Odetta - Ballads & Blues Grace Jones - Warm Leatherette | ||
| Jeff Whiteaker Member Username: Jeff_whiteaker Post Number: 1887 Registered: 10-2004 |
Tactics - Blue and White Future Whale Talking Heads - Fear of Music Pink Floyd - Piper at the Gates of Dawn Cathal Coughlan - Grand Necropolitan | ||
| skulldisco Member Username: Skulldisco Post Number: 575 Registered: 10-2008 |
actually jeff, after listening to "from her to eternity" for the 3rd time this week i reckon youre right. it is caves pinnacle, his masterpiece. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 2273 Registered: 03-2005 |
I still can't believe you found that Tactics album, Jeff! Two Antony & the Johnsons albums dropped through the door today. I'm listening to the first album. As this plays I keep thinking he should do a duet album with Nick Cave. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 3398 Registered: 05-2005 |
12 Rods - Gay? Haven't played it in years and couldn't even remember what it sounded like. I just remembered I really liked it when it came out 12 years ago and I got a promo copy of it. Right now track 1 sound a lot like Gene Loves Jezebel! | ||
| Andreas Severins Member Username: Andreas_severins Post Number: 138 Registered: 11-2007 |
Jeff, Randy, what kind of music is the Tatics stuff. Haven't heard of them at all... We Are Only Riders - The JLP Sessions Project Debbie Harry's Luck Jim is just gorgeous - hearing this tears are not far away! ...Nick Cave at his best and Lydia Lunch (long not heared) with very strong versions of songs Lucky Jim has written on his own!!! | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 2274 Registered: 03-2005 |
Andreas, the Tactics were an Australian band (well, series of bands really) from the early and mid-80s. They barely moved the needle commercially and definitely not outside of their home country. I'd describe their music as artistically ambitious post-punk. The main force was the singer/writer/guitarist Dave Studdert who had a rather--ahem!--challenging singing voice reminiscent of Roky Erikson. They did four albums with Studdert as the only real constant. Amanda Brown played on some of the songs on the final album. The first three albums plus a lot of extras and outtakes or alternative takes from the final album are collected together on two 2-CD anthologies on Memorandum. Jeff stumbled onto the original Aussie vinyl release of their third album in a second-hand store in Berkeley, California. | ||
| skulldisco Member Username: Skulldisco Post Number: 576 Registered: 10-2008 |
The Big To Do - Drive By Truckers. Rocks like F8ck, and live this will make Neil Young and Crazy Horse sound like Coldplay!! 5 star album of the month in the new edition of Uncut. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 2275 Registered: 03-2005 |
Stuart, the Mina "Love Box" and the 3 CD Dik Dik came in the mail today. Prior to the "Love Box" the newest thing I had by Mina was her 1969 album "Bugiardo Piu Che Mai . . . Piu Incosciente che Moi . . ." which I think is a good album. I heard her version of "Insieme" on youtube and decided that perhaps I should pick up some things of hers that date into the 70s. Well, most of the "Love Box" is pretty dreadful on first listen but "Insieme" is great. Now, Dik Dik . . . a relative handful of the songs are covers such as the two John Phillips covers ("California Dreamin'" and "I Saw Her Again Last Night") and some more suitable things that perhaps should have been Italian pop in first place such as Procul Harum's "Lighter Shade of Pale." But the overwhelming majority of the tracks are Italian songs and a decent number of them Mogol/Battisti songs and I can say that after listening to the first 2 CDs of this 3CD set that the firm majority of the tracks are great examples of late 60s Brit pop with an Italian dramatic flair. You have lots of harpsichord and a little bit of that Wigan stomp. Seriously, the 3CD set is NOT overkill. It's a lot of fun. This is the "Flashback Collection" of Dik Dik. If you're gathering together 60s Italian pop/rock, get this. I can send you examples if you have a mailbox that can take biggish music files. And Andreas, I can send you examples of the Tactics if you have a mailbox that will accommodate music files. | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 343 Registered: 10-2006 |
Whew, I'm glad the Dik Dik was worth it! At some point I'll have to bring up the subject of Fabrizio de Andre, too, but you've probably got enough Italian stuff to be going on with at the moment! | ||
| skulldisco Member Username: Skulldisco Post Number: 577 Registered: 10-2008 |
sly - theres a riot.. muddy waters - the essential.. outkast - stankonia various - the best of studio one sometimes pale skinny white boys just wont do :-) but then, bob dylan - highway 61 | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 2276 Registered: 03-2005 |
Compiletely Bats. | ||
| Michael Bachman Member Username: Michael_bachman Post Number: 1756 Registered: 01-2005 |
Tom Waits - Swordfishtrombones Finer then froghairs and is in contention for my favorite TW album. I don't know why I took so long to get it. | ||
| Andreas Severins Member Username: Andreas_severins Post Number: 139 Registered: 11-2007 |
@Randy: Thx for your explanations on the Tactics. ...and I would be happy to hear 2 songs from them if you could send them  Massive Attack - Helgioland Echo & the Bunnymen - Crocodiles | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 3401 Registered: 05-2005 |
She Keeps Bees - Minisink Hotel. Some nice PJ Harvey-like touches (without being a rip-off) on this album. | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 344 Registered: 10-2006 |
Listening to Bleu Petrole right now, and what a huge dark booming lovely thing it is! Can't thank you enough for pointing me in this guy's direction, Randy. Damn shame it was his last. Gauloise have a lot to answer for. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 2278 Registered: 03-2005 |
But, would he be Bashung without them? Thank Trou; he's the one who got me on the right Bashung track. | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 345 Registered: 10-2006 |
Thank you, Trou. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 3402 Registered: 05-2005 |
Power Of Dreams - Immigrants, Emigrants And Me. An amazing Irish album from 1989 that has just been re-released in a two CD version with b-sides and EP tracks on the second disc. | ||
| Rohan Howitt Member Username: Rohan Post Number: 2 Registered: 02-2010 |
Whilst I've been working the last few hours, I've cycled through: - The Jezabels - She's So Hard EP - Big Star - Keep An Eye On The Sky Live Disc - The National - Alligator | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 1775 Registered: 09-2006 |
Cornershop - Handcream for a Generation Liliput - Some Songs Firesign Theatre - Don't Crush That Dwarf, Hand Me the Pliers | ||
| cosmo vitelli Member Username: Cosmo Post Number: 241 Registered: 05-2005 |
Television - Television - good album but unexpectedly sounding like Lloyd Cole rather than Luna | ||
| Jeff Whiteaker Member Username: Jeff_whiteaker Post Number: 1894 Registered: 10-2004 |
Stockholm Monsters - Alma Mater | ||
| TROU Member Username: Trou Post Number: 244 Registered: 05-2005 |
Get Well Soon - Vexations. It's even better than the first one! | ||
| fsh Member Username: Fsh Post Number: 200 Registered: 05-2005 |
The Riptides - 77 Sunset Strip (1979) A copy just sold on ebay for $180 Aus. But you can catch the video (!?) here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MkYyG1GOE Tc&feature=related Captures the moment, me thinks, complete with tasteless matching shirt and bass drum. Wow! | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 2281 Registered: 03-2005 |
Thanks fsh! I'd seen the vid for "Only You" but never this one. Musically, vastly too far up Ramones Avenue for my taste but the visuals! Love the shirt/bass drum thing. | ||
| TROU Member Username: Trou Post Number: 245 Registered: 05-2005 |
Massive Attack - Heligoland. Something to add to a bunch of kind releases in 2010. | ||
| Charles Coy Member Username: Coy Post Number: 182 Registered: 10-2006 |
..Padraig, just picked up on a band 'The Walls'..from Ireland..?...think I like the 'Setting sun' CD..do you know much history on them..though I guess the website will tell plenty, love the control knobs on the site. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 3408 Registered: 05-2005 |
Charles, the Wall brothers used to be in a band called The Stunning, who were great live. The Walls' New Dawn Breaking is a fantastic album, one of my favourites of the decade. They are very nice fellahs too; I spent a very pleasant evening going from bar to bar and seeing many bands with them in Austin, Texas during SXSW 2001. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 3409 Registered: 05-2005 |
Right now I'm listening to Pavement's Quarantine The Past compilation. | ||
| Charles Coy Member Username: Coy Post Number: 183 Registered: 10-2006 |
Thanks Padraig, New Dawn Breaking is on its way to me, Angus & Julia Stone 'A Book Like This'..remains a rainy day special, as is today... | ||
| frank bascombe Member Username: Frankb Post Number: 465 Registered: 01-2007 |
I'm waiting for the new one by the Drive by Truckers | ||
| Hugh Nimmo Member Username: Hugh_nimmo Post Number: 216 Registered: 03-2007 |
Seabear - We Built A Fire ( Limited Edition which includes the While The Fire Dies EP.) The Ruby Suns - Fight Softly The Brunettes - Paper Dolls | ||
| skulldisco Member Username: Skulldisco Post Number: 593 Registered: 10-2008 |
Frank, you can listen to the Truckers album in full at their website. The stream is excellent quality. http://www.drivebytruckers.com/ |